Eyes shut tight, backing into the future.

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care, and INSURANCE FOR PREEXISTING CONDITIONS, become a wedge issue for democrats this fall.

I've seen them.

It may stick in the craw of blue state dems, but if you want to sell it in the South, then that's the way to do it.

if we had just one more liberal on the supreme court to avoid striking down the Medicaid expansion.

Life sucks in red states. I grew up in a conservative rural area and would not want to move back.

Not sure why Democrats (including the President) adopted the term, tho.

Its funny to watch these Republicans back away from their own brand name they concocted. At the time they thought, obviously, that it would tar the whole program as one shoved down the throats of Americans by one individual, a Black individual who usurped the Presidency, a Kenyan Muslim Socialist anti-Hetro, Terrorist loving, weak but at the same time dangeriously threatening...etc....

And it worked for awhile. But now as it has been proven to be an improvement and successful, (as much as a privately run insurance plan can be) they are scrambling to distance themselves of that moniker they invented.


But why oh why did even Obama himself use that term? Over and over. I'm sure he did it to rub it in their faces. But why not always use the term the Affordable Care Act when speaking of it? It would have put the emphasis on "affordable" which is the whole point of the policy in the first place. But by he and other Democrats using it as well, it further cemented the Republicans charge of arrogance and a one man show.

Finds were set aside in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 to purchase roadside signs announcing that the project you were driving by was funded by the ARRA. This was to serve like signs in the Depression letting people know that SOMETHING was being done and also to inject money into the sign making industry and all their suppliers. The Virginia legislature, Republican majority, specifically prohibited this part of the Act. This served to cloud exactly what was being done and to serve the "Where'd all the money go?" talking point.

We drove to a wedding in Ohio in 2010 and we passed several road projects that had such signs once we were in WV and Ohio.

Hilarious.

Yes, might as well laugh. No matter how disgusting, it's to the good in the end.

I particularly enjoyed Arkansas's tricksterism to cover the obstructionist butts for reelection.

I've actually read some of them claim that "Obama was conceited in naming it after himself." Remember "Hillarycare?" Chose a political figure who's divisive among the dolts: a surefire way to turn them against what the rest of the civilized world embraces as a benefit to them..."Obamacare" being a poor copy of the healthcare benefits known in the other "first world" nations.

just change the label. Cons ever do any actual fact checking.

…..Romney Care and be done with it. That's what it is.

The Republicans invented that name to make it seem undesirable to Obama haters. Now they're having to back away from it.

It was supposed to be a four-letter word!


rocktivity

Obamacare was originally coined as a pejorative term. Now it need to be called something else, lest the "Obama" reference comes across as being a positive association?